This is Internet Archive Avant Garde Project installment agp79 "Jean Dubuffet."

For the previous Internet Archive Avant Garde Project installment, here.

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AGP79 is the second devoted to electroacoustic works by Jean Dubuffet, one of the major visual artists of the 20th century. Dubuffet sought to create music as, "a man who ignores everything about western music and invents a music for himself without any reference, without any discipline, without anything that would prevent him to express himself freely and for his own good pleasure." In 1960-61, he recorded himself playing a variety of instruments for which he had no training, and used a mixing box to produce musique concrete works. The relative primitiveness of his equipment gives them a raw sound reminiscent of the pioneering musique concrete works of Pierre Schaeffer and Pierre Henry, from a decade earlier.

AGP74 was a transcription of an LP release of selected works from that series. This installment comes from a somewhat different selection released on CD, a transcription of which has been provided through the generosity of an AGP partisan in response to an appeal at the time of AGP74. The booklet notes from the CD were copied from the Ubuweb site.

Only three of the tracks are common to both releases (03, 05, and 06). Listening to those points up interesting differences between the two releases. The CD tracks have a brighter sound, revealing more detail in the higher frequencies. To my ear, the high frequencies on the CD sound artificially elevated, but it is possible that instead the high frequencies were damped down in the LP release.

To download AGP79 files, right-click on each of the following links and select SAVE LINK AS.

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